With all of this information coming to light, it’s become abundantly clear that ISIS isn’t a threat that’s looming in the distance for American citizens, they’re a threat that’s already here.
The Special Report shows ISIS’s recruiting of Americans and westerners is more successful than Al Qaeda because Syria is easily accessible as opposed to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Also, ISIS casts a “much wider net” with its “slick, multi-million dollar media campaign.” Another key component to ISIS is its focus on youth which it has described as “Lions of Tomorrow” and “have set up special schools to teach the youth about Islam and military skills.” Of the 82 Americans which law enforcement has arrested, “52 (or 63%) are between the ages of 15 and 25 years old; the remaining 30 are between the ages of 26 and 47 years old.”
ISIS mostly uses peer-to-peer recruiting with 64% of the US ISIS recruits acting in 15 clusters, the largest being a group of 11 men and women from Minneapolis “who were in contact with Abdi Nur, a fellow Minnesotan who has joined ISIS in Syria.” While social media is key to recruitment ISIS has also evaded attention by using encryption devices and/or directing communications through wives “as a way to avoid detection by the U.S. intelligence.”
The Special Report gives a list of indicators of radicalization from a federal criminal complaint of an American ISS recruit that included:
Posting Facebook images of ISIL’s flag and the flag of the ISLAMIC caliphate.
Growing out one’s bear and dying it red which mimics Mohammed.
Praying five times a day.
Wearing traditional Muslim attire in place of Western clothing.
However, these changes also are difficult to use as evidence because these “are signs of increased religiosity and do not necessarily indicate radicalization.” Families are essential to deciphering whether these changes are real signs of an ISIS recruit.
Dr. and Ms. Gorka conclude their Special Report with the following common-sense steps to the “heightened threat environment”:
Stop downplaying the seriousness of the threat so that individuals and law enforcement can be properly prepared.
Recognize that ISIS is targeting youth, and do more to protect youth from radicalization. Educate those who work with youth about the indicators of radicalization. Hold parents criminally liable for not preventing their children from supporting ISIS where it can be established that they were aware of it.
Target the ideologues. Recognize the link between rhetoric that calls for death of the infidel and acts of terrorism and interrupt the flow of such communication.
These reports are things that Americans need to read. They’re great resources for legal records related to ISIS and radicalization and recruitment in the United States. Whether you decide to read them or not, it’s clear that ISIS in America is a threat that we need to take seriously, before more American citizens get hurt or worse.
Source: breitbart.com
I think the prestigious is behind all of it
Probably because most of them are born and raised American citizens who were probably members of the armed services at one tiime ! Mercenaries gone real bad !
Amen to that! Those that whine about being offended need to grow up and handle their feelings like an adult instead of demanding everyone else tiptoe around them. I’ll never bow down to the PC Police!
I’ve been asking everyone the same thing…Had you noticed a Muslim problem in America before Obama too office?
their leader Barrack Obama lets them
And we have Judges that have stopped the temporary travel ban so we can vet the ones coming in to our country.
Why is my comment in of need moderation?
its only a matter of time before our president will weed out the isis elements that undermines our wonderful country and president.stand up for America an neutralize radial islam.